Residential care will be ‘free’ under Labour plan
Elderly people who have been in residential care for two years will have the costs paid for the rest of their lives under Labour plans to reshape the welfare state, The Times has learnt.
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Elderly people who have been in residential care for two years will have the costs paid for the rest of their lives under Labour plans to reshape the welfare state, The Times has learnt.
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Deputy Minister for Social Services Gwenda Thomas has allocated a £3.4 million funding package to support the second phase of the Assembly Government’s Older People’s Strategy. £1.8m will go towards the running of the Commissioner for Older People’s office – the independent champion for older people in Wales.
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LAST week’s revelations that child protection services failed to stop a boy being abused and neglected for 12 years show that an official inquiry is needed into the management of Health and Social Services, says Senator Alan Breckon.
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The National Skills Academy for Social Care has launched its national management trainee scheme for the second year. The pioneering scheme was piloted last year and it acquired 20 graduates.
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A dispute between two councils over an ill six-year-old’s care should never have reached the High Court, according to a report by social work inspectors.
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Records from the city council’s social services department have been found on an unencrypted USB stick in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The stick was handed in by an IT consultant to the local newspaper, the Sentinel, on Friday, after he apparently found it lying on the pavement.
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A SOCIAL worker who molested three disabled boys was struck off. David Lawrence Morris abused the adolescent youngsters while they were staying at Arrowe Hall overnight care centre in the 1980s.
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A Cumbrian nursing home under investigation by social services has been told by independent inspectors that it is not looking after its elderly residents properly.
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Agencies involved with a woman who drowned her four-year-old daughter failed to recognise the extent of her mental health problems, a report says.
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Twenty-nine children seeking asylum in Britain have gone missing from the council at the centre of the Baby P scandal in the past three years, it emerged today.
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